Fullstack Engineer

**About dbx Team**

This is a **full-time** position based in **Ho Chi Minh City**, with a flexible hybrid (WFH/WFO) setup.

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**Our Application’s Architecture**
- **Backend**: Node.js (Express) with TypeScript and JavaScript, following a “Functional core, imperative shell” pattern. We modularize our codebase for maintainability, with stateless functional code at the core and imperative logic in outer layers, powering schema parsing, query execution, and real-time collaboration.
- **Frontend**: Vue.js with TypeScript for rich, interactive interfaces. We build custom components for UI elements, enhanced by Web Workers to decouple complex computations from the rendering thread for a smoother user experience.
- **Databases**: PostgreSQL and MongoDB for reliable, flexible data management.
- **Other**: We invest in automated testing, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), static type checking, and code quality tools to maintain a robust codebase. We are also using AI to increase our engineering productivity.

**What You’ll Work On**

As a dbx engineer, you will help design, build, and scale products used by developers and data teams across the world:

- Maintain and develop DBML, an open-source DSL language designed to define and document database schemas and structures. Develop tools to enable users to import/export database schemas to/from DBML.
- Build high-performance diagram rendering engines for visualizing complex databases that contain thousands of tables, columns and relationships.
- Architect scalable WebSocket services to handle real-time collaboration in dbdiagram.io.
- Opportunity to collaborate with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers on everything from ideation (product discovery) to design, implementation, and launch of new features.

**The way we work**
- How we work on a new feature:

- Product & Design Team spends time researching the problem, talking to customers, and preparing a Product Discovery Doc (PDD) and Product Requirement Doc (PRD).
- Engineering Team then performs Technical Research. When we have a clear picture of the complexity and impact, we’ll start with the implementation.
- We **do not compromise product and code quality** for artificial deadlines. We refactor and think about code optimization regularly. We understand the good and bad of technical debt and use it to our advantage.
- We employ **“pair programming” practices** regularly where two team members work on a task together in one workstation. This brings a great deal of benefits, among which are faster knowledge transfer, reduced bus factor, better team cohesion, and improved code quality.
- We have a **strong writing culture**: Almost everything is communicated through written documents. Just as our developers write reusable code, we write evergreen notes.
- We maintain a **problem-solving culture**. Everyone is strongly encouraged to have a rigorous understanding of a problem, separating Problem Space vs Solution Space as well as using Eigenquestions to find the most important dimensions of a problem. Solutions are deliberated over with trade-offs explicitly listed in discussion documentation. Watch this talk about problem-solving for engineers that our cofounder gave (in Vietnamese).
- We **avoid being a feature factory**. We’re aware more features do not equal a better product.
- We let team members rotate every 3-6 months. This allows them to try new things and learn different aspects of the business, though dbx engineers stay focused on dbx products.
- Our culture stimulates **continuous learning**:

- We have a weekly TED talk program where team members present topics they are interested in.
- Engineering Team organizes weekly technical talks as well as monthly technical workshops.
- Product Team has regular AMA events with external product experts.

**What we look for in you**

Here’s our idea of a good team member fit:

- You should have a **strong foundation in Computer Science** with good **problem-solving ability**.
- **Experience with our technology stack not required**: While it’s a bonus, it’s not a requirement for you to be familiar with our current technical stack. We expect you to be able to pick up these quickly on the job.
- You should be someone with a **continuous learning & growth mindset**. You find yourself excited to learn something new as part of the work every week.
- **Communications**: Given we have a strong writing culture, you should be comfortable with communicating your ideas in English written forms.
- **Genuine interest in the space**: We’d love to work with people who are genuinely interested in the product and the space we’re in, someone who cares about the end-product beyond just writing the code that makes it work.

**Interview Process**
- **Round 1: Technical Interview** with Engineering team (introduce the company, our products, and to understand your skills and experiences)
- **Round 2: Pair Coding** (work with a dbx engineer on a real-world problem to experience our workflow)